I Quotes
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“It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.”
“It's no sin to tell a good story.”
“It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.”
“It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.”
“It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.”
“It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.”
“It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.”
“It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.”
“It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.”
“It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.”
“It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in this real-world guide to job success and survival. The surprise is how urgent it is for every author, client, and boss who works with editors to embrace Carol Fisher Saller's 'subversiveness'-or suffer the next outcome from hell.”
“It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.”
“It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.”
“It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.”
Source: Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years
“It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?”
“It's no treat being in bed with me.”
“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”
Source: Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia
“It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.”
“It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead”
“It's no use blaming anyone now.”
“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”
“It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.”
Source: Gypsy and Ginger
“It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
“It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.”
“It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.”
“It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.”
“It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.”
“It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels
“It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.”
“It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it.”
“It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.”
“It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk of the spine to put it across.”
“It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.”
“It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.”
Source: Ladies of Lyndon
“It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.”
“It's no use trying to be different than you are.”
“it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.”
“It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.”
“It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.”
“It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.”
“It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.”
Source: Islands, the universe, home
“It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby-yeah, you better-because the price of milk is so high right now!”
“It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .”
“It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.”
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
“It's no wonder the White House is delaying release of the latest dismal budget figures. It's not just that they are grossly more dismal than the projections. It's that they will undercut already-waning public support for Obama's socialized medicine scheme.”
“It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.”